Daggerfall is barely the best in the TES series. Daggerfall has billion bugs and randomly copy/paste generated towns and dungeons. The world is huge (I heard its a third of the GB isle) but it is the same everywhere. Dungeon, wilderness and town tiles are the same. There is almost no decoration and stuff inside of houses unlike all later games and guards can see through the walls so if you try stealing something u﻿ will hear the famous "HALT HALT!" thing. A lot of Quests in Daggerfall are also copy pasted such as "Go to BLANK, kill BLANK and you will get BANK as a reward". I even had encountered a bug where it ACTUALLY says "blank" in one of the quest's mission letter haha.

Dialogues are also poor in Daggerfall and too little books, notes to read (if any?) for a such a huge world.

NPC citizens are all one hit kill and they are barely unique. All humans - no other races in WHOLE continent. Later games are 100x times smaller and yet there are different nations and people to speak with.

There are also hundreds of uncomplished features which were meant but were not added in Daggerfall. If you play with files, you can find tons of great materials which were never implemented, such as the mounted guards, archery guards, dragons and many, many other things. So they hurried to release a half-complete game.

Some things, are however great. Something both Skyrim and Oblivion lack. In Daggerfall you can dress you char just like in UO. You can put a lot of armor on him (including right and left plate arm etc) and you can wear a robe, or a cloak, or a shroud (a robe with a hood) on top of armor. In oblivion you can only wear either clothing or armor, you cant decorate your char any more. And in Skyrim too. And thats terrible. In morrowind you can also wear robes on top of armor.

Also. I am not a big fan of wow-like neons and sparkling items, which both Oblibion and SKyrim (and perhaps Morrowind) are filled with. Thanks to the classic engines and graphics Daggerfall looks more gothic/medieval/oldschool without shining neon poo poo sparklings. All items, armor, clothes, weapons look medieval as they should. THere are no toxic/nuclear looking effects when you can a spell etc.

Two last points are what makes Daggerfall better from later games, but overall it cannot be "the best". I think Bethesda should get back to this project and ressurect it simply because they did not finish it back it when they released Daggerfall. As I said there is billion things to fix/add. Now they made quite a bit of millions on Skyrim so I quess they can relax and do something really useful, than bullshit filled with "an arrow to the knee" jokes, stealing methods by putting a pot on somebody's head and other memes/jokes. TES series are meant to be serious.

So yeah I'd rather play Morrowind (I actually started few days ago...so far it's good but I hate that huge bug-taxi thing and the world so far looked like big jungle which I dont fancy at all, cuz I like western Europe medieval forest atmosphere rather than *bleep*ing jungles..hope there will be some medieval-like townes etc).

Skyrim is great, and probably overall the best so far, which is good because it had a lot to live up to.

That said, Morrowind had my favorite writing/plot so far in the series. I've played all of the series, fro TES I to V, and I can honestly say TES has never let me down with a main title. It's hard to think of any other series, from Mario to Final Fantasy to GTA, that I can say that about.

People keep posting on this... Morrowind beat daggerfall in a small margin, though daggerfall beat every other tes game. In fact the weakest game is oblivion and to stand next would be skyrim. For some reason Morrowind was better than daggerfall, but oblivion destroyed the tes series. Then skyrim came out and made me contemplate why... Skyrim and oblivion are so one dementional compared to morrowind and daggerfall, they seem to me to be no more of an rpg than an early tony hawk game (in the sense you follow one path and can increase skills according to how you play) I really feel sad about this and hope we can see a tes game hold up to daggerfall and morrowind. There is still fallout though, they didn't do a bad job on f3, f4 will prolly be skyrim with guns though.

I am amazed at this thread even existing!! Morrowind is by far the best of the TES games due to the fact that it was made for modding, especially when the Bloodmoon & Tribunal add-ons are added, therefore, you have the ability to add on most anything you can think of, ranging from : Ranger tents (a portable tent, and one of the best mods ever), Better graphics/bodies/faces, More Towns such as Haldenshore, Companions to help you on your travels, Pack Guars and Rats, Buy-able houses, traveling merchants, more monster including Giant Spiders, Bees, and even small pachyderms, Bandits and Pickpockets randomly added as a nighttime fear, Assassination attempts from the Dark Brotherhood, Balmora + Vivec expanded, and even a sailable Boat mod, but the very best has to be the Tamriel Rebuilt mod, which adds the Tamriel "continent" for an amazing amount of gameplay!!! No, my friends, Morrowind is unbelievable....

I know this is old but here is my opinion Daggerfall is the best I love Morrowind too but Daggerfall just hade something Morrowind didn't like when I would go into a dungeon I would be scared the sounds the sprites would scare me and the dungeons where huge I really felt immersed into the world of Tamriel but for Morrowind I just didn't have that suspense of going into a dungeon but Morrowind your still second on my list.

Here are 10 fun facts on Daggerfall because a lot who have posted haven't played it.

1.Biggest Map out of any TES game.2.Most guilds to join.3.Most locations to explore.4.takes up the region of the Iliaic bay which is High Rock and Hammerfell plus Dragontail and Wrothgorian mountains.5.Best spell making system.6.You could buy a ship or/and a horse.7.Could be inflicted with two forms of lycanthropy and turn into either a werewolf or wereboar.8.Could become a vampire like most TES games.9.Could do Deadric quests (First game to do so) 10.most skills in any TES game skills like climbing,impish,streetwise and Thaumaturgy (please bring Thaumaturgy back Bethesda)

I prefer Daggerfall mainly because of its scale. The feeling it gives of being just a random person in a HUGE world makes me feel immersed more than any other game.

I don't mind so much that a lot of the content was randomly generated because in the real world most stuff you do is the same everywhere until you find a particular opportunity, and Daggerfall implemented these opportunity with special quests.It really play like an actual role playing game where you got to make your imagination work to define your character and his actions.

I could never get into Morrowind. Not fan of the exotic culture and environment.And I never liked the fact that they scaled down.Oblivion was bland.I found that in Skyrim they managed to bring back more soul and immersion (than Oblivion) in the game. Even if the world is still quite scaled down, I find myself role playing my character again, although not as much as in Daggerfall.